Definition of behind

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Behind (a.) Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement..

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Scene :: Scene (n.) The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes..
Lease :: Lease (v. i.) To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.
Paraphimosis :: Paraphimosis (n.) A condition in which the prepuce, after being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again..
Rear :: Rear (n.) The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front..
Popliteal :: Popliteal (a.) Of or pertaining to the ham; in the region of the ham, or behind the knee joint; as, the popliteal space..
Aback :: Aback (adv.) Behind; in the rear.
Abdominales :: Abdominales (n. pl.) A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals..
Boot :: Boot (n.) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach..
Postscapula :: Postscapula (n.) The part of the scapula behind or below the spine, or mesoscapula..
Saddlecloth :: Saddlecloth (n.) A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing..
Background :: Background (n.) Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front..
Retrochoir :: Retrochoir (n.) Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar..
Break :: Break (v. t.) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind..
Emersion :: Emersion (n.) The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; the emersion of a star from behind the moon..
Ergot :: Ergot (n.) A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint..
Bicycle :: Bicycle (n.) A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.
Postorbital :: Postorbital (a.) Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles..
Behind :: Behind (adv.) After the departure of another; as, to stay behind..
Cephalaspis :: Cephalaspis (n.) A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points..
Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..
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